Proud Contributor Since 2022: FAO leading Innovation in the 2025 State of the Digital Public Goods Ecosystem Report

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is featured in the 2025 State of the Digital Public Goods Ecosystem Report, published by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA). A member of the Alliance since May 2022, FAO contributes to advancing open, reusable digital solutions that support sustainable development and innovation in agrifood systems.

Since joining the Digital Public Goods Alliance in 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has promoted a Digital Public Goods (DPG)-first approach for the digital transformation of agrifood systems. In 2022, FAO focused on establishing its DPG strategy and supporting internal teams in identifying potential DPGs within its digital portfolio. The next year, FAO contributed to the DPG Registry by adding solutions such as AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus, Agrontology, FAO Agricultural Stress Index System, Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform, and WaPOR, while providing guidance for DPG certification and advancing knowledge-sharing tools like FarmStack and Farmer.Chat. FAO expanded in 2024 its impact by co-hosting the global innovation initiative Reboot the Earth 2024, convening young innovators worldwide to develop climate and agriculture solutions, and collaborating with partners such as Digital Impact Alliance, UNICEF, and Digital Square to launch the Digital Impact Exchange and develop a Digital Public Goods maturity assessment framework to strengthen the DPG ecosystem for agrifood systems.

In 2025, FAO continued strengthening its DPG-first approach, focusing on improving how digital public goods are identified, assessed and scaled both within the Organization and with partners across the global ecosystem. This included work to better measure the value and impact of digital public goods and to advance shared approaches to assessing their maturity and scalability, in collaboration with partners such as UNICEF, Open Government Products, GitHub, and PATH.

FAO also continued expanding and strengthening its digital public goods portfolio while promoting greater internal awareness and use of these open digital solutions across programmes and operational delivery.

At the same time, FAO contributed to global dialogue on digital public infrastructure for agrifood systems, convening partners including 50 in 5, Smart Africa, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to explore how digital public goods can support inclusive and sustainable digital transformation in agriculture.

Innovation engagement also remained a key priority and in particular digital agriculture. The FAO Office of Innovation played a leading role in Reboot the Earth, organizing chapters in Ethiopia and Morocco and co-organizing the chapter in Rwanda as part of the Global Network of Digital Agriculture Innovation Hubs. The initiative culminated in a 48-hour hackathon in Rome, where youth innovators presented climate solutions during the Science and Innovation Forum 2025 at FAO headquarters.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is proud to be part of the Digital Public Goods Alliance. In a challenging global context, digital public goods continue to enable collaboration, reuse, and shared progress. The 2025 State of the DPG Ecosystem Report highlights how members are working together to advance open, reusable digital solutions worldwide.
 

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https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/2025-DPG-Ecosystem-Report